CULTURE OR ANARCHY
A FORBIDDING PROBLEM. “Culture on Anarchy” was the subject of an address by Sir Harold Bellman, a governor of the London School of Economics, speaking to the American University at Washington. He said that the educational machine was set the task of catching up, not so much in disseminating facts as in diffusing the sweetness and light for which Matthew Arnold pleaded, arid increasing the activity of thought, receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling which were the characteristics of true culture. The agencies of culture had a formidable but, he hoped, not forbidding problem. Every agency of culture from the kindergarten to the university should be mobilised. If civilisation were to be saved and made secure, it would be not on the battlefield but in the schoolroom. Even if there should be a world war, the armed forces, so far from solving problems, would merely create problems which can only be solved finally, if at all, in the classroom.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1939, Page 4
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162CULTURE OR ANARCHY Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1939, Page 4
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